Allan Sherman
Allan Sherman
Allan Shermanwas an American comedy writer and television producer who became famous as a song parodist in the early 1960s. His first album, My Son, the Folk Singer, became the fastest-selling record album up to that time. His biggest hit single was "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh," a comic novelty in which a boy describes his summer camp experiences to the tune of Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours. He is not to be confused with the songwriter Al Sherman who, coincidentally,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth30 November 1924
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.
You may be wondering why I went from over there to over here. Well, that was choreography.
Do not make a stingy sandwich; pile the cold cuts high; so you should see salami coming through the rye.
I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper.
Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.
A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray."
There's Beatles books and T-shirts and rings, and one thing and another. To buy my daughter all these things, I had to sell her brother.
Love is lovelier the 7th time around.
Anyone who calls it "sexual intercourse" can't possibly be interested in actually doing it. You might as well announce you're ready for lunch by proclaiming, "I'd like to do some masticating and enzyme secreting."
Teacher, teacher, I declare, I see your purple underwear.
Temples also take into consideration an ability to pay and, in a general sense, do not turn people away if there's a need,.
The whole city gives you the impression of impermanence. You have the feeling that one day someone is going to yell, "Cut! Strike it!" and then the stagehands will scurry out and remove the mountains, the movie-star homes, the Hollywood Bowl--everything.
In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.
A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.